a random poem thingie

*Sorry I couldn't post for a long time... my six-year-old best friend (who's also my pet unicorn) was at my house and we had so much fun I forgot to come online! I wrote this yesterday because I was bored...*

You stand there

Waiting.

Eyes hidden behind 

Purple lenses of goggles.

Frizzy hair trapped under a

Swim cap about to fly off.

You're nervous. Don't be.

Just finish this race.

It's only fifty meters.

How hard

Can

It

Be?

You dive in,

cold water stings

your feet.

But you don't feel it

You're too busy kicking

Like your life depends on it,

Your arms circling,

Pulling back the water

And making you go forward.

You don't breathe

At all.

Reach the wall, flip turn

Push off

And keep going

You're tired. Breathe.

Or at least try.

Don't slow down.

Faster.

Don't think of

Anything else except

Reaching

That

Wall,

Finishing the race.

You're done.

The longest thirty seconds

Of your life

Are over.

You try to get out of the pool

But your arms are

Drained of energy

And your legs wobble

Like you've forgotten

How to walk.

But you don't care.

You're done.

Your first-ever

Swim meet

Is over.

And you can't wait

For next time,

To swim those fifty meters

Over again.